Word: bardes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progressive education as practised at the University of Chicago and at Bennington challenges Harvard in more ways than one. It is not merely that its academic freedom is fully as complete. Far more fundamental is the fact that Bennington (and also Columbia's Bard College) are approaching education from a creative point of view, while Harvard's attitude is in the main scholarly. Bennington, as far as is possible, has made creative and individual work an integral part of every subject. Harvard has not, and must soon face the issue of whether it is providing a complete education. Recent criticisms...
William Butler Yeats has never been crowned Laureate of Ireland, but he is more truly Ireland's Bard than Masefield is England's. When a Dubliner stops his chatter and raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his companions know that he is about to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Nearing three score and ten (he will be 70 on June 13), Poet Yeats has written enough and well enough in his long life to satisfy most men. But few poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse...
...committee in charge of arrangements is composed of Perry J. Culver '37, chairman, Richard C. Boys '35, D. Stuart De Bard '36, David I. Hosmer '36, Richard F. French '37, and Ellis F. Jones...
John Harvard's mother went to school with Shakespeare; Harvard knew as a boy the Great Bard, and his Inn, the sale of which supplied the money for the donation to the University, was often fined for selling liquor during church hours. Such were among the interesting facts brought out by Frank W. C. Hersey '99, instructor in English, in his talk before the Memorial Society, last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
Romeo and Juliet. A great show, even for those who secretly think the Bard is a bore...